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Tammy Wise2023-10-20 18:11:112023-10-20 20:24:42The Cages We Live In
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Tammy Wise2023-08-24 11:45:152023-08-25 11:29:36Love asks You to Stand in Your TruthWelcome to the BodyLogos blog. Here’s where you’ll get your dose of alignment and balance with grace. (Sign up here to join 1,000 other blog subscribers.)
Redefining Strength
I want to change our perception of strength. Strength is the ability to meet resistance and influence an outcome without compromising ourselves. And we already have it.
Strength is not an attribute; it’s a state of being. Gladiators, bodybuilders, and football players demonstrate strength through brute force, sheer willpower, muscle mass, and relentless pursuit. But we’re also quick to identify dancers and martial artists as strong. Their medium taps into a sense of vulnerability, balance, alignment, controlled power, and grace—but no one can deny their strength. Strength may look different on each of us, but it is an inherent part of who we are.
You are not weak by nature; you are stronger than you think. Your strength is not something you need to kill yourself to gain—it is already within you, waiting to be excavated. The key is to stop chasing something you already have and tap into it, so you can manifest that strength in your everyday life.
Because we don’t think we’re strong, we approach resistance with the idea that we’re not enough. We throw everything we have at it and push past our physical, mental, and emotional limitations. We see strength as domination, but it’s not.
When you learn to listen to your body’s divine wisdom, you cultivate a sense of where your body is developing tension instead of standing in its strength. You end the vicious cycle of unrealistic expectations, injury, and self-criticism and learn how to consciously embrace responsible growth. You stop compartmentalizing your strength into emotional, physical, and mental pieces and operate from the strength of your being at all times.
You learn how to align yourself with gravity—instead of working against it—so you can channel your strength to meet life’s resistance. As you meet resistance with equal parts power and alignment, you transform tension into strength
As in the sword dance above, the power lies in bringing just the right amount of force—not too little and not too much. By meeting the sword’s weight, I meet gravity. I am tapped into a larger source of energy, free of tension, and discover a strength that is wholly and uniquely mine.
About Tammy Wise
Cancer is Never Nothing
by Tammy WisePhoto by: Carol Forman
Navigating through cancer has been a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Lucky for me, this scare was a short-lived one-and-done surgical procedure. I’m now cancer free.
The experience, however, of sharing my diagnosis of skin cancer with friends and colleagues, had a trickle down effect that scared me more than the cancer. I was met with a range of responses, some of which, made me question friends’ sincere care.
Comments like, “skin cancer’s nothing, you’ll be fine,” may have had the intent to make me feel better. But actually, made me feel dismissed.
Cancer is never nothing! (A quote from a cancer surgeon).
And, how would any non-doctor know if I’d be fine?
If your intent is to comfort a loved one in need, this message is for you.
In my cancer experience, there was the haunting feeling that the “Big C” found its way inside me, and forevermore, I’ll be on the lookout for its next move. And, there was the practical fact, that I’ll lose work and be in pain in the same foot I’d just nursed back to health from a fascia rupture.
Comments like, “I’m sorry you’re having to go through this, but I’m glad that they caught it,” actually did comfort me. They were true statements that considered the feelings and facts I was actually floundering through.
A here-and-now death was not what scared me. Living through the next few weeks was. I believe, this is the case for more health scares than not.
It was hard to know what to ask for, when swimming in the “I don’t know” abyss of cancer. And, in the like, it must have been hard to know what to say, when asked to respond to that “I don’t know” abyss.
What I learned from this cancer experience is that, being in the “I don’t know” with someone in need is the kindest and most comforting path to take.
But, sitting in the muck with someone asks us to be brave enough to remember, or sit in for the first time, our own fears. And, recognize that we don’t know another person’s fears unless we take the time to ask.
I appreciate everyone’s intentions to comfort me. And, now that my recovery is on the homestretch, I’m no longer scared by the unintentional dismissals I experienced when in the thick of it.
I write this to help us all remember to consider the “I don’t know” abyss when consoling another’s situation. Because that is what’s at the heart of every matter.
Philosophical overviews, personal experiences or false proclamations don’t soothe the heart. Once you console the “I don’t know” abyss of the heart, philosophy and experience can soothe their mind and body… love before lecture.
The support I received through texts, checkin calls, appointment company, and a homemade cake, has assured me without question, that I do have support in the world.
Thank you to everyone.